Has anyone noticed the seeming plethora of new titles being published about BOOKS?

[JSWolf]

There is also the book The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean.

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

[Quoth]

Also the daddy of them. Fahrenheit 451.

[Dr. Drib]

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Originally Posted by Quoth

It's a bit meta isn't it?

Haven't you one too? Or at least written a fictional person writing about a fictional writer?

That's sort of hyper-meta?

Yes, I did. A short story.* (Thank you for remembering.) I find myself fascinated by meta-fictional writing, in addition to postmodern fiction. My writing and reading habits are very diverse.



* 'Dear Mister Knopf' ▼ ▼ ▼ ▼